The knob throwing came in various competitions. There was a pin a knob on the Cerne Abbas Giant Competition, Throw Your Knob (for which there was a big queue), and a man with machine guns that fired Dorset Knobs and some others.

The legend about the Cerne Abbas giant is that in wartime, his willy had to be covered up, as it pointed directly to the city of Bristol, and the German bomber pilots were using it as an aid to navigation.

According to some sources the Cerne Abbas Chalk figure was a Roman figure and Roman phalluses appear in a fair number of places. Apprently there is one on the Bridge abuttments at Corstopitum. It was a good luck symbol. The man was probably cut later.